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• Hyundai Elantra - Is this a good buy? 16 May 2010 (Forum)
  ) Much above average mileage for its age. 6 year old car, run 109,000 miles. Though I would be more comfortable buying a diesel car with higher than average mileage rather than very low mileage. 2) A couple of paint chips on the body and a small dent on the door. Since the elantra comes with only
• Car incident - a nutter on the road 22 Dec 2008 (Forum)
  . He was driving an old shape corsa. This was just a few hours ago in busy traffic. I had thought of taking his number plate details and reporting it to the police. Not because of the incident but because I'd thought it was possible the car may have been stolen or uninsured/untaxed, they may have had
• Time wasters 'selling' cars 27 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  I have recently been tasked with the job a buying a first car for a newly qualified driver. The budget, circa £1k, is the same as the insurance is going to cost, but I was pretty confident I could source something half decent from a private seller. (My own car cost me £995 last Oct and is brilliant
• Toyota Yaris - Keys and Deal questions 15 Jun 2004 (Forum)
  , the car is now over 3 years old, but does not currently have an MOT. As the car has not been resident in the UK for the last 6 months or so, does this matter? He will bring it back to the UK and put an MOT on it before any money changes hands. Secondly, he has no service history or manual for the car
• Sell to a dealer - V5 and cherished no. 12 Feb 2004 (Forum)
  with the old date-plate reg on it. I was planning on handing the car over to the dealer (in exchange for a bank draft) tomorrow, but having read the DVLA form there are dire warnings that if the car is sold before I get a new V5 with the original date-plate on it, the rights to the personal plate pass
• If Microsoft Built Cars 24 Oct 2001 (Forum)
  You might have heard these, but there amusin anyway and maybe some of you can think of some more. IF MICROSOFT MADE CARS. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, all cars over two years old would need a new engine. Occasionally your car would stop on the motorway for no reason. You
• Ford Mondeo - LPG? Forget it! 19 Sep 2013 (Forum)
  seats are practically oval and the exhaust valves pretty much burnt out.  This in a car that's three years old and has done 45k miles. The recommendation is to fit a new cylinder head at a cost of £2,200 including labour. If I have the gas reconnected the risk is that in another 40k
• Seat Leon FR TDi 170: 5,500mile report 3 Jan 2007 (Forum)
  As promised a review of my Leon at 5,500 miles and 4 months For comparison, my previous car was a Toledo 110 TDi (old, non-PD lump) and my wife?s car is an Octavia 2.0 TDi with the 140bhp engine. Overall I?m very pleased with the car. It still looks distinctive in a way the Golf never will without
• Alfa Romeo GT - Rejection New Lease Car - Bulkhead Weld Failure 27 May 2010 (Forum)
  , but at the end of the day I am leasing a GT. The car is now 1 1/2 years old.   Who do I complain to, Alfa UK, Alfa Fiat Lease, or Dealer, and can I reject the car? Thanks WipeOut   PS Shame as it's a lovely car otherwise.    
• PCP time bomb 28 Aug 2023 (Forum)
  Hi, An old topic but a chat with a car salesman’s on Monday got me thinking. He works for a Porsche dealer and they have been doing well post covid. However, noticed a slight slowdown July and August but nothing unusual with it being holiday time. However he tells me they are expecting a drastic
• Nissan Juke - Nissan Juke radio problem 19 Jun 2023 (Forum)
  Bought a Nissan Juke Tekna last August - ex Motability car - 3 years old, full service history.  Have had it serviced and MOT at Nissan main dealer in February.  Last Thursday, radio blacked out at the beginning of a journey so had to complete with no satnav or radio.  Long story
• Jaguar XF 3.0 S X250 - Changing Battery X250 2015 XF & Avoiding Issues 16 Dec 2022 (Forum)
  . The car still has it's original JLR 7 year old battery. I charged it up with a CTEK charger and it was fully charged up to number 7 on Monday. However today, when I started the car it was extremely cold and the low battery warning came on and when I put the CTEK charger on it stayed on light number 1
• Office of fair trading ,A JOKE 24 Aug 2021 (Forum)
  a leak from the back of the engine , im disabled and 73 to old to work on the car  Other faults were ABS did not work but no dash light come on front brakes down to 2/3mm Front tyres down to the wear blocks ,,bottom joint worn out + wheel bearing going out . Went online
• Land Rover Discovery Sport - DPF just cleaned by Land Rover (AA partner) 26 Nov 2020 (Forum)
  See below but 20 days later the red DPF light is back on and in limp home mode again. Also after they took the car it came back with small chip in the windscreen. The car is 2.5 years old and I dont want It cleaning again after only doing 50miles. Dont want big bills when warranty
• VW Golf 1.6tdi SE running report 2013 6 Oct 2020 (Forum)
  I purchased this car one year old from Motorpoint in Birmingham at £15k.  the mileage today after 6 years is 130k - all components are original including car battery.  Its had an oil change between on average 7-8k using VW Quantum 504/507 spec, between 10k to 90k each oil change
• Peugeot 508 - Can't take the gearbox in the 508 e-hdi anymore. 23 Feb 2020 (Forum)
  I bought my dad's 508. It is now 7 years old but only has 18500 genuine miles on it, so I would rather hold on to it and who would buy it anyway with a gearbox that is more than terrible, and has always been terrible. Is there no-one or no way to rip that crap gearbox out and put
• Online tyre websites 1 Jul 2019 (Forum)
  for them to be shipped to a local garage, with whom you make an appointment to have them fitted. I'd appreciate any experience anyone has of this. I'm particularly keen to know how easily the bookings were made and how rigidly they were adhered to, as I share a car with my girlfriend and I can't make
• Ford S-MAX - Child Observation Mirror 8 May 2019 (Forum)
  Hi All,  I've just purchased a 2013 S-MAX Titanium and was wondering if anyone else has one that doesn't have a child obseration mirror? When on our test drive I was sat in the back whilst my husband drove and I asked the sales guy about the mirror as I use it all the time in my old
• Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? 7 Apr 2019 (Forum)
  I plan to upgrade my old 14 y.o. Citroen C3 for a car slightly bigger and more reliable and I've found two Hyundai Tucson for what it seems a good price.  Both are "Hyundai Tucson 2.0L CRTD CDX", both have had two previous owners, booth look in quite good conservation and both prices
• Used Hyundai ix20 - dealer or franchise? 9 Sep 2018 (Forum)
  My S-i-L wants me to help her find a new car.  She currently drives our old Renault Modus and after seeking advice on here and elsewhere the consensus is the ix20 should be ideal.  She is going to her local dealer tomorrow for a test drive to be sure it ticks all the boxes (high